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Prosperity Drive
Mary Morrissy
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Description for Prosperity Drive
Paperback. Features characters who begin their journeys on Prosperity Drive, appear and disappear, bump into each other in chance encounters, and join up again through love, marriage or memory. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
`A wonderful writer' Hilary Mantel All of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. A woman falls and remembers a moment decades earlier that changed the course of her life. A failed priest teaches children to swim at the YMCA. A teenage girl takes a spanner to the car of the young man who has driven her home. A honeymoon in Venice goes disastrously wrong. A man is reunited with his first love in an airport departure lounge. All of the characters begin their journeys on Prosperity Drive, appear and disappear, bump into each other in chance ... Read more
`A wonderful writer' Hilary Mantel All of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. A woman falls and remembers a moment decades earlier that changed the course of her life. A failed priest teaches children to swim at the YMCA. A teenage girl takes a spanner to the car of the young man who has driven her home. A honeymoon in Venice goes disastrously wrong. A man is reunited with his first love in an airport departure lounge. All of the characters begin their journeys on Prosperity Drive, appear and disappear, bump into each other in chance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784700577
SKU
KTG0020204
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Ref
99-8
About Mary Morrissy
Mary Morrissy has published three novels - Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey - and a collection of short stories, A Lazy Eye (1993). She has won a Hennessy Award and a Lannan Literary Foundation Award and currently teaches at University College Cork.
Reviews for Prosperity Drive
She is a true heir to Chekhov and the great writers... Her clear-eyed vision and her deep compassion, along with her lovely sense of the comic and her exceptional literary articulacy, make this an outstanding collection.
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
Irish Times
Mary Morrissy is a wonderful writer. These stories are entertaining and deft, so ... Read more
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
Irish Times
Mary Morrissy is a wonderful writer. These stories are entertaining and deft, so ... Read more